GORDON, Alexander Merchant in Aberdeen ^{1 2 3}

   Other names for Alexander were GORDON, Alexr,⁴ GORDON, John ⁵ and GORDOUNE, Alexander.

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  General Notes:

"GORDOUNE
ALEXANDER
ADAME GORDOUNE/BARBARA CULLEN
M
01/11/1649
168/A 40 63
Aberdeen"

from Births and Baptisms



Old Parish Registers
St Nicholas parish Aberdeen
Baptisms

"1649
i November
Gordoun
Adame Gordonne and Barbara Cullen ane sonne called Alexr, M^r James Gordonne, Johne Lesly, Doctor James leslie Alexr burnett elder Thomas Melvill Godfathers"



In this inscription the sections of the epitaph are separated on the journal page by short vertical lines, which have here been represented by starting each phraseof the inscription on a new line:
"EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS IN ST NICHOLAS CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD Section D
...
On another ground-stone, close beside the last there is -
Here lyes Alex^r Gordon Sen^r
or Mer^t in Ab^d who departed
this life Sep^r 5 1705 aged 56
also isobell Cumming his spous
who departed Dec^r 21 1720 aged 62
Also Adam Gordon departed Jan^y 2^d 1698 aged 10 years Jean
Gordon departed Feb^y 2^d 1699
aged 20 Also George Gordon
departed Nov^r 26 1720 aged 26
Also John William Alexander
Ann isobell and Margaret Gordons
their children"
(Alexander Forbes and family epitaph follows next)

from Scottish Notes and Queries1890-1891 ^{1 2 3}

Alexander married Isobell CUMMING. (Isobell CUMMING was born about 1660 ¹ and died on 21 December 1720 ¹.)